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Re:Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives? by lst on Saturday November 29, 2008 @11:40AM (#380189)
P.S. In case you are atheist: if you can scientifically prove that Eternal Paradise does not exist, I'll be glad (or so) to hear from you!

(Side note: the current situation on our Planet is still that much more than 50% of currently living souls actually do believe in God/Good/Heaven/Paradise; and the already gone ones, actually already know exactly!)

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Re:Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives? by mindslight on Saturday November 29, 2008 @07:50PM (#380510)
Sorry, science doesn't work that way. It's your job to give evidence that some sort of afterlife exists.
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Re:Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives? by lst on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @03:15AM (#382789)
(There was a message hidden in there!)

To not believe in afterlife, you explicitly have to not believe it, so even the denying of afterlife is based on a (negative) faith.

Atheists don't seem aware of being their position a simple negative faith response to a positive faith.

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Re:Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives? by mindslight on Thursday December 04, 2008 @06:22PM (#386317)
If you're talking about "strong" atheism (asserting that no god exists) then yes, this is an act of faith as well.

But "weak" atheism is merely a rejection of theism. It is not a proposed hypothesis, but a rebuke of unsupported hypotheses.

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Re:Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives? by lst on Friday December 05, 2008 @04:13PM (#387537)
Sorry, but this is already sophistication (in the archaic sense).

All things that happen must have a cause.

Even Big Bang had its Cause. And since the exact definition of God is: "The only one not caused by anything, but simply 'cause' of Itself", there's no escape here...

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